Sanji! Let's just do a bullet point list of reasons I love him:
He is hot.
HE COOKS. I love a man who can cook, oh my goodness. (Especially since I CANNOT COOK AT ALL.)
He's smart! Probably the most intelligent member of the crew after Robin and Nami. (Actually, didn't Oda actually rank the crew in order of intelligence at some point? But fucked if I remember who ended up where lol.)
Elaborating more on the point above, he is always doing this thing where he disappears for a few chapters and then shows up again and it turns out that he was busy doing something off in the background that SAVED EVERYONE'S ASSES while nobody was looking! Like his scheming as Mr. Prince, or his sabotaging Enel's ship, or his opening the gate at Enies Lobby, and so on and so on. He likes to act independently to get shit done, and he's fucking good at it.
HE'S A LITTLE BIT RETARDED. But I love him for that too! Like, I know a lot of fans were really irked with Oda's treatment of him early in the most recent arc, but I was just kind of sitting back and loling throughout. I mean jfc, this idiot actually lost so much blood via boobs-induced nosebleeds that HE NEEDED A FUCKING BLOOD TRANSPLANT. THAT ACTUALLY BECAME AN IMPORTANT POINT THAT MOVED THE PLOT FORWARD. That will never not be unimaginably hilarious to me.
Lastly, out of all the Strawhats, he's always stuck me as one of the most self-sacrificing. Obviously there's the thing where he is basically Nami and Robin's oh-so-willing MANSERVANT, but he more than does his part to take care of the others as well. As a cook, it's in his job description to keep them all well-fed, and he takes that shit FUCKING SERIOUSLY. And that means that he probably works... well, I don't want to say that he works harder, exactly, but he definitely works the most out of them all except maybe Franky, because his job is basically round the clock. Last but not least, do I even need to mention Thriller Bark? Though he and Zoro were basically competing to be who could be the most self-sacrificing of all, there. XD
2. ANOTHER favorite character!!
SO MANY CHARACTERS! Gonna just pick one at random... Franky! Okay, so it took a while for me to warm up to Franky at first (I remember back when I first read Water 7, I was really hoping at first that Paulie would be the one to join the crew). But he is awesome. I really love his backstory, and while this is weird to say given that he is a half-man-half-robot who runs around in a Speedo all the time, I think he's one of the more well-adjusted characters in the series too. He's got his shit together, he doesn't really angst that much, and when he does, he tends to get a grip pretty fast afterward. He's more mature than most of the other Strawhats, which makes sense because aside from Brook he is the oldest member of the crew. Most of the others, they're still just kids, really, so Franky is kind of the grown-up of the bunch. I think Oda even said he was the dad, with Robin being the mom... I wonder what that makes Brook, since I forgot. THE WEIRD UNCLE...??
Anyway, Franky is hilarious, and completely at ease with himself and who he is, which let me tell you is a RARE, RARE THING in shounen manga, and he's MAN ENOUGH to rock that Speedo like nobody's business, and to cry MANLY TEARS whenever he is emotionally moved by something, and to unironically call everyone his bro, and to keep bottles of cola in his chest cavity, and to STAND IN FRONT OF FUCKING TRAINS like he's fucking Superman or some shit. FUCK YOU, TRAIN, YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME. Fuck yeah, this guy.
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Sanji! Let's just do a bullet point list of reasons I love him:
2. ANOTHER favorite character!!
SO MANY CHARACTERS! Gonna just pick one at random... Franky! Okay, so it took a while for me to warm up to Franky at first (I remember back when I first read Water 7, I was really hoping at first that Paulie would be the one to join the crew). But he is awesome. I really love his backstory, and while this is weird to say given that he is a half-man-half-robot who runs around in a Speedo all the time, I think he's one of the more well-adjusted characters in the series too. He's got his shit together, he doesn't really angst that much, and when he does, he tends to get a grip pretty fast afterward. He's more mature than most of the other Strawhats, which makes sense because aside from Brook he is the oldest member of the crew. Most of the others, they're still just kids, really, so Franky is kind of the grown-up of the bunch. I think Oda even said he was the dad, with Robin being the mom... I wonder what that makes Brook, since I forgot. THE WEIRD UNCLE...??
Anyway, Franky is hilarious, and completely at ease with himself and who he is, which let me tell you is a RARE, RARE THING in shounen manga, and he's MAN ENOUGH to rock that Speedo like nobody's business, and to cry MANLY TEARS whenever he is emotionally moved by something, and to unironically call everyone his bro, and to keep bottles of cola in his chest cavity, and to STAND IN FRONT OF FUCKING TRAINS like he's fucking Superman or some shit. FUCK YOU, TRAIN, YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME. Fuck yeah, this guy.